THE SVMME AND PARTITION OF THE HOLIE BIBLE.
With a brife note of the Canonical and Apochryphal Bookes.
y the vniforme consent of al learned Diuines, the holie Bible, S. Ierom. Epist. ad Paulin. de omnib S. Scipt. libris. S. Aug. prefat in specul. li. 2. dc doct christ. ca. 9. li. I. de Gen. cō tra Manich. ca. 4. li. de catechiz rudib. c. 3. & 4. l. 2. qq. su per Exod q. 73. li. 15. cont. Faust. Manich. cap. 2. li 18. ciuit. ca 54. de vera relig. c. 27. li. 4. cōt. Faust. ca. 2. S. Greg. ho. 6. in Ezech. I. How the holie Scriptures conteine al knowlege neceslarie to saluation. The old and the new Testament shew the same God, Christ, Church and other Mysteries of Religion. The old more obscurely, with lesle helpes. The new more expresly and yeldeth more grace.
or written word of God, conteyneth Expressed orimplied, al
thinges that man is to beleue, to obserue, & to auoid, for obtayning
of aeternal saluation. That is, al matters of faith &
maners, by which we may know and serue God, and so be spiritually
ioyned with him, in this life, & in eternitie. For both the old &
new Testament propose and testifie vnto vs, one and the same God, the same
Christ, the same Church, and other Mysteries of our beleefe, not differing in
substance, but in maner of vttering; the old more obscurely in figures and prophecies
foretelling those thinges, which the New declareth (in great part) as
donne and performed. VVherupon saith S. Augustin: In the Old Testament
the New lieth hidden: & in the New the Old lieth open.
And touching their names, wherein appareth difference, the one (saith
the same Doctor) is called the old Testament, either because it propofeth
promises of temporal thinges (VVherwith our old corruptnes
is allured) Or in respect of the New, by which it is fulfilled, and
in some part abolished. The other is called the New, because by
it man is renewed, and hath promise of eternal life: Which shal
neuer waxe old nor decay. Likewise S. Gregorie the great testifieth this conformitie,
and correspondence betwen the Old and New Testament, affirming
that the same is signified by the prophet Esccbiels vision of an hcele, which
had foure faces, or apparence of foure whiles, the shape whereof was, as it
were, a wheele in the middes of a wheele. What is this saith he,
nisi quod in Testamenti veteris litera Testamentum nouum latuit
per Allegoriam? but that in the letter of the old Testament,
the New lay hidden by an Allegorie? In both Testaments, are foure sortes of Bookes.
And as the same is the summe and subject of both Testaments: so both are
diuided (for the more principal partes therof) into foure sortes of Bookes:
Legal, Historical, Sapiential, & Prophetical. The Legal bookes of the
old Testament are the fiue Bookes of Moises; Genesis, Exodus, Leuiticus,Legal.
